VCUarts Opportunities Listing
Cartoon/ drawing position
Howard Rose, an MBA grad from VCU, is starting a new business and is looking to hire an artist that can draw and create cartoons.
Howard Rose
804/967-2605
howard.rose@skmenswear.com
volunteer service
St. Mary’s Hospital needs assistance with Community Art Displays. If you are not familiar with the facility, they devote two large sections of wall space on the Ground floor for the purpose of displaying community art work. For the past several years, art displays have been coordinated by a gentleman based out of Lynchburg , VA. The hospital has chosen to discontinue utilizing his services and is looking for someone interested in providing this volunteer service to the hospital. The current art display will need to be changed on May 24th.
There are artist lined up through April 2009, but we are looking for someone who would be willing to come to the hospital once a month (3 rd week of every month) on a Saturday and take down the current display and return to the various artist (who come to retrieve their work) and greet the new group of artist and hang their work for the next month’s display.
Please contact Trish Fawcett immediately if there is anyone you can recommend who might be interested in helping with this on a regular basis.
Trish Fawcett
Director of Volunteer Services
Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital
5801 Bremo Road
Richmond , Va 23226
804-281-8309
cell: 804-517-0732 fax: 804-287-7587
Call for entries
NATIONAL CALL FOR ARTISTS
July 31, 2008 – deadline
THIRD ANNUAL JURIED SCULPTURE SHOW
Sponsored by the Craven Arts Council & Gallery in New Bern, NC
Exhibit dates are November 7 – December 30, 2008, for the indoor exhibit and November 7, 2008 – September 17, 2009, for the outdoor exhibit. The indoor sculpture will be exhibited at the Craven Arts Council & Gallery; the outdoor sculpture will be exhibited in the Sculpture Park.
Eligibility: Contemporary and figurative sculptors. Entry Fee: $35 for up to three entries (JPEG files preferred). Awards: $20,000 in awards, purchase awards and honoraria.
July 31, 2008 deadline.
For more information contact: Craven Arts Council & Gallery, PO Box 596, New Bern, NC 28563. Telephone: 252-638-2577
Email: Cravenarts@esisnet.com
Web address: www.cravenarts.org
Call for entries
RiverSculpture Festival, September 1 through November 31, 2008
A Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at French Broad River Park
Asheville, NC - RiverSculpture is seeking submissions for the Third Annual Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at French Broad River Park. The exhibition runs from September 1, 2008 to November 31, 2008 and includes interdisciplinary arts events on each weekend in September and October. The 14-acre park is located on the
French Broad River, across from Asheville’s River Arts District.
The juried exhibition is open to all sculptors from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The sculpture submitted may be in any genre and of any size large enough for outdoor display, but must be sturdy and stable, suitable for the
outdoor environment and the general public and safe for park visitors.
The selection of work will be based on artistic merit and appropriateness for the public, highly visible site. A stipend of $500 per sculpture, plus insurance coverage while in the exhibition, installation assistance, postcards and other promotion will be provided for selected sculptors.
This program is sponsored by the City of Asheville Parks & Recreation Department Cultural Arts Division in conjunction with the Asheville Area Arts Council and YMI Cultural Center.
The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2008. Sculptors may submit slides/CDs of up to three sculptures (two views each are acceptable). All works must have been completed in the last three years. If submitting a proposal for a site-specific sculpture,
sculptors must submit clear drawings of the proposed piece as well as ten images/slides of previous work. Detailed information and application instructions are included in the prospectus.
The prospectus is available online at www.riversculpture.com.
For more information, email:
info@riversculpture.com or contact Robert Winkler at: 828-225-3766
Call for entries
The City of Chattanooga is seeking artwork to lease for the Third Biennial Sculpture Exhibition in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which will be on view August 2008 - February 2010. Works can be in any media, must be suitable for outdoors, and may be functional or non-functional, temporary in nature or permanent. Up to seven works will be selected for this exhibition. The competition is open to both new ideas and already existing artworks.
Artworks will be leased for a period of 18 months, and each artist who is selected for the exhibition will receive a stipend of $5,000. At the end of the lease period, one work will be selected for purchase for inclusion in the city’s permanent collection. For additional information and applications, please contact Rachel Hildebrandt.
Eligibility: All professional artists over the age of 18
Deadline: May 16, 2008
Contact: Rachel Hildebrandt, Public Art Director
E-mail: rehildebrandt@gmail.com
Internship
Creative Interns wanted with energy, enthusiasm and talent. (And get paid!)
The creative internship program at Digitas NY is a great opportunity for students and recent graduates to work on some of the best brands with some of NYC’s most talented people. We want your skills, time, and creativity — you won’t be running for coffee. You will work on real projects and build real world experience for your book.
Application Method:
Offline - via Email (creativeinterns@digitas.com)
Additional Instructions:
Art Directors and Copywriters: submit a PDF of your portfolio and show us what you can do. Also, please submit a short paragraph on why you think you should be chosen for our internship. Art directors must know Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator and InDesign. Flash and interactive skills a plus, but not necessary.
Please include your portfolio, write-up and resume, and submit them to Creativeinterns@digitas.com by Monday, May 26th. The program starts June 2, 2008 and ends in August 15, 2008. For recent graduates, there are opportunities to be hired full-time after your internship ends.
David Friedman at creativeinterns@digitas.com
Internship
The Chronicle is seeking editorial interns for the fall 2008 session. The internships are paid, full-time positions in our Washington office and will last through mid-December 2008. Duties include reporting and writing brief features for print, and daily news articles for our Web site. Applications must be received by June 6. More information about the internships and how to apply is available on our Web site.
Deadline is June 6th
Visit http://chronicle.com/help/internships/?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en for more information.
Design Competition
The Southeastern College Art Conference needs a new website design. Students from affiliated schools are invited to create a new design for the SECAC website to compete for a $1000 award. Competing designs should be implemented into a functioning website and uploaded onto the internet.
Entrants should place the web address (URL) of their design on the attached entry form so that it can be accessed and viewed by the judges. Screen grabs or mockups will not be accepted. In this manner the design’s feasibility as a functioning website can be fully considered. If you cannot read the attached entry form, send an email to secac@ncrrbiz.com.
A jury charged with selecting the winning design will be constituted by the SECAC president and it will consist of one or more of the SECAC officers and impartial faculty/SECAC members.
Information and copy for the competing design can be taken and repurposed from the current website at: http://www.unc.edu/-rfrew/secac/
The technical parameters of the new website are listed below.
• The site should be built with a basic static, multiple page XHTML structure that adheres to current WC3 standards for XHTML, CSS, and accessibility. Visit http://www.w3.org for more information about web standards.
• The site should not use databases, PHP, ASP, or any other content management system beyond basic Dreamweaver templates and library items.
• Adobe Flash can only be used for design elements (logo animations, slide shows), but not for content delivery-
• The site should not use frames.
• If a fixed-width layout is used in the design, the site should not exceed 900 pixels wide.
Experimental website design techniques are encouraged, but note it is possible that the winning design may not be used as the new SECAC website.
Technical questions should be directed to Brent Patterson, design competition coordinator, at patterson53@marshall.edu. Other questions should be directed to Don Van Horn at vanhorn@marshall.edu.
Call for proposals
The recent sudden and tragic death of our colleague and friend, Tyler Binsted, calls to our attention the need to have on campus, a tangible symbol of our collective loss. Tyler was a member of the “student body”, and even to those who did not have the pleasure of knowing him, his needless and violent death caused a wholesale feeling of diminishment, lost opportunity, and deprivation. We need to use that loss as a reminder to make better use of our own lives in order to give more meaning to his life and death.
SGA is proposing that a Lost-Student Memorial Gate be constructed on campus. A recent tour of Universities and colleges revealed that such memorials are common on college campuses. American University in Washington, D. C. even has a monument to its five alumni who perished in the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. Every student who looses his or her life while a student at VCU would have their name inscribed on the gate. It is recommended that the year 2000 be used as a starting date for memorializing lost students.
To arrive at a suitable design for the gate, a design competition will be held. All current students at VCU are eligible to participate in the competition. The winner of the design competition will receive a stipend of five hundred dollars ($500) The competition will open immediately and it will close at midnight, September 30, 2008. Only broad conceptual designs will be necessary for the selection committee to review. The selection committee will consist of the following: The Assistant vice Provost of Student Affairs, the chairman of the Department of Art Education, a faculty member representing sculpture, another representing fine arts, two students from the art department, and the SGA president. To facilitate design specificity, a location for the Memorial Gate should be selected as soon as possible. One suggested location would be on Floyd Avenue between Harris Hall and the Student Commons.
The Memorial Gate will be completely financed with specific contributions received for the Gate. A bank account will be established for the exclusive purpose of collecting contributions. A special appeal to the senior class of 2008 will be made for contributions to the fund. Families of deceased students will be informed of the Gate and they will be encouraged to provide names of likely contributors to the fund. Business establishments in the vicinity of the campus will also be informed of the establishment of the fund.
Because it is so late in the academic year, it is important that we get moving on this as soon as possible. If we were to wait until fall, it is far less likely that we would be as successful in getting it off the ground.
Deadline for proposals 30 September 2008
If you have any questions please contact SGA representative Jibran Muhammad at:
Jibran
703-981-7723
muhammadj@vcu.edu
Deadline for entries extension
ALL VCU STUDENTS:
It’s not too late! Submissions for the VCU Student Film Fest are still being accepted thru May 6th! So make your cut, get it in, and be a part of one of VCU’s greatest competitions.
Submit your Quicktime file, DVD, or mini-DV to Pollak 205, Commons 229 or the Fine Arts Building front desk.
The VCU Student Film Festival is Saturday, May 10th at 2pm at the Commons Theater, free.
Visit online: http://www.studentorg.vcu.edu/sofilmfest/
Contact:
Nick Schapiro
nick.schapiro@gmail.com
